Paul J. Rosch, MD - Stress Management, Cardiovascular Disease

Dr. Paul J. Rosch reviews medical content for Healthwise, a nonprofit
organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. Dr.
Rosch is President of The American Institute of Stress, Clinical Professor of
Medicine and Psychiatry at New York Medical College, and Honorary Vice
President of the International Stress Management Association. He completed his
internship and residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and subsequently
at the Walter Reed Army Hospital and Institute of Research, where he was
Director of the Endocrine Section in the Department of Metabolism. He had a
Fellowship at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the
University of Montreal under the supervision of Dr. Hans Selye, the founder of
the Stress Concept, and has co-authored works with Dr. Selye as well as Dr.
Flanders Dunbar, who introduced the term, "psychosomatic" into American
medicine. Dr. Rosch was the 1998-99 President of The Pavlovian Society, an
organization of distinguished international scientists devoted to integrating
basic and clinical research and has been the recipient of many honors,
including the Outstanding Physician's Award of the New York State Medical
Society, Man of the Year Award with a Congressional Citation, the Schering
Award, and the International Distinguished Service Award of the American Rural
Health Association. In 1985, he received an award from Dr. Michael E. DeBakey,
President of the American Society for Contemporary Medicine and Surgery for
"contributions to our understanding of stress, health, and disease". The I.M.
Sechenov Memorial Medal was bestowed on him in 1993 by The Russian Academy of
Medical Sciences, and he is one of the few foreign members ever elected to this
prestigious organization. He was also the recipient of this year's annual
Innovation Award of The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies
and Energy Medicine.

Dr. Rosch has served as President of the New York State Society of
Internal Medicine, Chairman of the International Foundation for Biopsychosocial
Development and Human Health, Expert Consultant on Stress to the United States
Centers for Disease Control, President, Westchester Diabetes Association, and
President, Yonkers Academy of Medicine. He is a member of the Honorary Advisory
Board of the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association, Board of Governors of
Northwood University, The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress,
Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation, and
serves as Consultant to the Mensana Clinic, Biotonus Clinic in Switzerland, and
other organizations involved in the delivery of health care. He is a Fellow and
Life Member of the American College of Physicians, Diplomate of the National
Board of Medical Examiners, Emeritus Member of The Endocrine Society, Emeritus
Member of The Bioelectromagnetics Society, Fellow of the Council of
Epidemiology of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the Society of
Behavioral Medicine, Fellow of the Council on Geriatric Cardiology, Fellow of
the World Academy of Art and Sciences, and Fellow of The Royal Society of
Medicine. He was recently unanimously elected as a Full Member of the
prestigious Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, one of only six foreigners who
have received this honor in the past twenty years. Dr. Rosch is Senior
Consultant in Internal Medicine and Honorary Emeritus Physician at St. John's
Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, New York, and has a Workers Compensation
Subspecialty Rating in Cardiology, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases.

Dr. Rosch is Editor of Stress Medicine, published by John Wiley &
Sons in England, Associate Editor of The International Journal of Emergency
Mental Health, and International Journal of Stress Management, and has served
or serves on the Editorial Board of many publications including the Journal of
Human Stress, International Journal of Psychosomatics, Cardiovascular Reviews
and Reports, Comprehensive Therapy, Journal of Human Behavior, and Health
Inform; Essential Information on Alternative Health Care. He has organized and
presided over the annual International Montreux Congress on Stress for the past
decade, which has featured state of the art presentations on all aspects of
stress, as well as cutting edge research in Bioelectromagnetic and Alternative
Medicine. (For further information on this, visit www.stress.org)

Dr. Rosch authors the Wellsprings of Health section of Creative
Living and Health and Stress, the monthly Newsletter of the American Institute
of Stress. He has written extensively over the past forty-five years on the
role of stress in health and illness, with particular reference to
cardiovascular disease and cancer, and problems associated with job stress. In
recent years, much of his attention has focused on the psychophysiologic
effects of subtle energies, and especially the clinical use of magnetic field
therapies. He is co-author of The Doctors Guide To Instant Stress Relief and
more recently, Magnet Therapy. He has appeared on numerous national and
international television programs such as The Today Show, Good Morning America,
60 Minutes, Nova, CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC and CBC network presentations. His
editorials and comments have been published in every major medical journal
including the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine,
Journal of The American Medical Association, British Medical Journal and The
Lancet. He has been interviewed and widely quoted in Time, Fortune, Newsweek,
The Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, The
Washington Post, The London Times, and numerous other publications here and
abroad.

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